Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson's "Purp'' is a very sick dog right now; and if it does not soon recover to perform the miracles its master hopes for, it is apt to be a dead dog this autumn...
...most apt, upon inquiry, to turn out to be an undergraduate at an Eastern college, either trying to accelerate or taking extra courses for credit. She's interested in her work; otherwise she wouldn't be here; but she can't help regarding this as a sort of vacation. It's certainly like no other school term she's ever experienced! Nevertheless, she discovered the first week that she'd have to keep on her toos; Harvard professors mean business...
...government. This faith is "an extraordinary one." Historically considered, it has often remained inarticulate, since by nature "the intellectual is predisposed toward the uncommon man: he strives to be uncommon." But let the uncommon man, the trained expert, be faced with the concerns of the community and "he is apt to be as much of a propagoose as any ordinary citizen, if not more so." The moral is plain. We need to insist, most of all, "upon the limited competence, indeed upon the fallibility of every man, be he ever so uncommon," and hardly less, upon the belief that...
Also helpful in accident prevention are the new elaborate "screening" tests given candidates at induction and preflight centers. A series of 21 physical, mental and mechanical examinations weed out a high percentage of men who would be apt to crash...
...only part of it. The West, absorbed in its own battles, cannot feel the reality of India's long battle for independence. Twentieth-Century, liberally educated Indians are apt to think: "Let bygones be bygones as far as Britain and India are concerned. Where do we go from here?" But below their liberal speculations they are also apt to feel a bitterness against Britain which even common danger cannot fully assuage. Even the most liberally educated Indian watches Britain's moves toward India with ultrasensitivity...